[issue15494] Move test/support.py into a test.support subpackage

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Yeah, it was only when we went to add "test.pkg_helper" (so that test_runpy and test_pkgutil could share it) that we put the brakes on and decided to stop making a bad situation worse and do something different. There are probably some other helpers we could spi

[issue6649] idlelib/rpc.py missing exit status on exithook

Roger Serwy added the comment: Thanks for the patch, Guilherme! -- resolution: -> fixed stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed versions: +Python 3.3, Python 3.4 -Python 2.6, Python 3.1 ___ Python tracker

[issue6649] idlelib/rpc.py missing exit status on exithook

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset e044d22d2f61 by Roger Serwy in branch '2.7': #6649: Fixed missing exit status in IDLE. Patch by Guilherme Polo. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e044d22d2f61 New changeset cd2c613527ed by Roger Serwy in branch '3.3': #6649: Fixed missing exit status

[issue17546] Document the circumstances where the locals() dict get updated

anatoly techtonik added the comment: > ... cannot be relied upon to either happen or not happen... IMHO this phrase is from Advanced English course. > The original included the caution against modifying it, and I think it is valid because of the inconsistent behavior. > Perhaps it could be weak

[issue17206] Py_XDECREF() expands its argument multiple times

Illia Polosukhin added the comment: Updated patch - removed old code and addded tests to _testcapimoudule.c as Amaury suggested. Amaury, why do you mention -R flag (from what I see it does hash randomization)? I would expect some flag, that would enforce memory leakage issues to fail test. -

[issue17546] Document the circumstances where the locals() dict get updated

R. David Murray added the comment: Hmm. Perhaps the last sentence could be "... because changes to the local dict propagating to the local namespace cannot be relied upon to either happen or not happen". That would make it less redundant, since it would essentially be referencing the previou

[issue17506] Improve IDLE news handling

Roger Serwy added the comment: This is related to #17221. I agree that news items need to be consolidated in both Misc/NEWS and Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt. -- nosy: +roger.serwy ___ Python tracker __

[issue6649] idlelib/rpc.py missing exit status on exithook

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[issue17584] collections.Iterator __subclasshook__ does not check if next() is callable

Byron Ruth added the comment: Understood. I am not sure it is appropriate to follow-up with a question here, but would this be a downstream issue? My understanding of the iterator protocol is that is assumes the __iter__ and next methods are implements. In the example, the next method is defin

[issue17583] IDLE HOWTO

Roger Serwy added the comment: I agree that improving IDLE's docs would make it easier to learn and use. There is a tangentially related issue: #16893. -- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation nosy: +docs@python, roger.serwy versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.4

[issue17583] IDLE HOWTO

Todd Rovito added the comment: I think it is a great idea. The Python documentation is written with restructured text. See the Python Developer's Guide here: http://docs.python.org/devguide/documenting.html Restructured text is not difficult please let me know if you need help I would be

[issue14146] IDLE: source line in editor doesn't highlight when debugging

Roger Serwy added the comment: It's definitely a "bug" with Tk. Whenever the Text widget loses focus, the selection highlighting goes away. The following example code brings up a focused text box with selected text. Clicking the button switches focus to the button itself and then back to the t

[issue17584] collections.Iterator __subclasshook__ does not check if next() is callable

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[issue17577] Add lookahead/peek wrapper to itertools

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[issue17577] Add lookahead/peek wrapper to itertools

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[issue17584] collections.Iterator __subclasshook__ does not check if next() is callable

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Sorry, this isn't bug. The design of ABCs are to check for the existence to required named; none of them verify the signature. -- nosy: +rhettinger resolution: -> wont fix status: open -> closed ___ Python track

[issue17584] collections.Iterator __subclasshook__ does not check if next() is callable

New submission from Byron Ruth: Consider: ```python class A(object): def __init__(self): self.r = iter(range(5)) def __iter__(self): return self @property def next(self): return next(self.r) ``` The `next` method is a property, however: ```python from co

[issue17584] collections.Iterator __subclasshook__ does not check if next() is callable

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[issue5492] Error on leaving IDLE with quit() or exit() under Linux

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: After reading the doc for IOBase.fileno: "Return the underlying file descriptor (an integer) of the stream if it exists. An OSError is raised if the IO object does not use a file descriptor." I decided that the bug is in the assumptions made by site.py. -

[issue17577] Add lookahead/peek wrapper to itertools

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Another possible way to go is to expand the existing tee() object to support __getitem__ and __bool__ methods. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue5492] Error on leaving IDLE with quit() or exit() under Linux

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I am presuming 2.7 has same problem since it has same code. The patch appears to give PyShell.close a return value it did not have before. Perhaps remove the return? I am slightly puzzled: self.pollinterval is 50 (millisecs). If reducing the wait from 100 to

[issue6653] Potential memory leak in multiprocessing

Richard Oudkerk added the comment: I don't think this is a bug -- processes started with fork() should nearly always be exited with _exit(). And anyway, using sys.exit() does *not* guarantee that all deallocators will be called. To be sure of cleanup at exit you could use (the undocumented)

[issue17546] Document the circumstances where the locals() dict gets updated

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: /non-local/Non-local/ If we add the hyphen, perhaps we should add 'non-global' also. Thanks for the concrete draft. It is definitely an improvement. The last sentence is somewhat redundant with the second. The problem with the last sentence is that it only sa

[issue17583] IDLE HOWTO

New submission from Amit Saha: I would like to propose a new HOWTO discussing IDLE from a user's perspective. I feel that the current documentation at http://docs.python.org/3/library/idle.html is not sufficient to be pointed to a newbie programmer or someone who wants to teach his/her student

[issue17577] Add lookahead/peek wrapper to itertools

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[issue17390] display python version on idle title bar

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Can you find the place where the editor title is set? I am currently thinking of something like Python x.y.z: xxx.py (directory path) # or Python x.y.z Editor: xxx.y (path) I am guessing that the reason to put the file name at the beginning is in case the p

[issue17580] ctypes: ARM hardfloat argument corruption calling functions with many float arguments

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[issue2818] pulldom cannot handle xml file with large external entity properly

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[issue17390] display python version on idle title bar

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 74d9a9507019 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '3.3': Issue #17390: Display Python version on Idle title bar. Patch by Edmond Burnett. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/74d9a9507019 New changeset e0f66c924544 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch 'default': Merge

[issue6653] Potential memory leak in multiprocessing

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Richard, do you think this is an actual concern? -- nosy: +pitrou, sbt versions: +Python 3.3, Python 3.4 -Python 3.1, Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker _

[issue15627] Add a method to importlib.abc.SourceLoader for converting source to a code object

Brett Cannon added the comment: It cleans up the run_unittest() call. You can check the file and see that the "missing" classes are actually not in the module anymore. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue17390] display python version on idle title bar

Edmond Burnett added the comment: Terry, I submitted my contributor form on March 15th, and received the confirmation, but it has not yet been applied to my account. I saw some discussion on one of the mailing lists of there being a potential backlog due to the PyCon sprints, so I just assum

[issue17390] display python version on idle title bar

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Edmond: please fill in, sign, and send by your preferred method a PSF Contributor Agreement http://www.python.org/psf/contrib/contrib-form/ (back up a level for more explanation) For a patch more complicated than this, the CA would now be required before apply

[issue17546] Document the circumstances where the locals() dict gets updated

R. David Murray added the comment: The problem with using 'nonlocal' is that it would naturally be read as 'those names referenced in a nonlocal statement', which I don't think is the case. Maybe 'non-local', to differentiate it from the keyword? I'm attaching a patch incorporating my underst

[issue17435] threading.Timer.__init__() should use immutable argument defaults for args and kwargs

R. David Murray added the comment: Thanks, Denver. I'm choosing not to backport it to 2.7, but that can be done later if someone finds it worth doing. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed versions: -Python 2.7, Python 3.2 _

[issue17435] threading.Timer.__init__() should use immutable argument defaults for args and kwargs

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 2698920eadcd by R David Murray in branch '3.3': Issue #17435: Don't use mutable default values in Timer. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/2698920eadcd New changeset 8c15e57830dd by R David Murray in branch 'default': Merge #17435: Don't use mutable

[issue15494] Move test/support.py into a test.support subpackage

Ezio Melotti added the comment: FWIW the reason why I proposed to add assert_python_ok to test.support, is that from my point of view it's just one of the many *test* support utilities defined in test.support. I think that from Nick's point of view, assert_python_ok is just one of the many *s

[issue15627] Add a method to importlib.abc.SourceLoader for converting source to a code object

Éric Araujo added the comment: The first commit does something fishy with tests: http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e30bcce5c634#l3.1 -- nosy: +eric.araujo ___ Python tracker ___

[issue15494] Move test/support.py into a test.support subpackage

Éric Araujo added the comment: FWIW I have no principled opinion about big vs. small test.support module, as this is purely internal code. The reasons for this proposal as I understand them are: - One module for script helpers, one module for package creation, etc. are not bad. - We don’t real

[issue17453] logging.config.fileConfig error

Éric Araujo added the comment: Unless the 2.7 configparser docs mention that two quotes are parsed as an empty string, I think this is an implementation accident, should not be relied upon and 3.x should not be changed to match it. Values in configparser files are not Python strings: we write

[issue17533] test_xpickle fails with "cannot import name precisionbigmemtest" or "cannot import name _2G"

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset be0586ebb842 by Benjamin Peterson in branch '2.7': G -> M (closes #17533) http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/be0586ebb842 -- status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker __

[issue17546] Document the circumstances where the locals() dict gets updated

Éric Araujo added the comment: Terry: agreed. -- nosy: +eric.araujo ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscri

[issue935117] pkgutil doesn't understand case-senseless filesystems

Éric Araujo added the comment: With the advent of implicit namespace packages in 3.3, I don’t know if anything in pkgutil will be done for this use case. (BTW is it normal that pkgutil.extend_path is not at least doc-deprecated?) -- nosy: +eric.araujo, eric.smith _

[issue17578] Update devguide for 3.2 in security-fix-only mode

Ned Deily added the comment: Committed in http://hg.python.org/devguide/rev/e125591a5f12 -- resolution: -> fixed stage: commit review -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue14146] IDLE: source line in editor doesn't highlight when debugging

Todd Rovito added the comment: I created a small test program trying to reproduce the problem on Windows 7, Python 3.4, and TK 8.6. Unfortunately it works fine and each line is highlighted as a user presses ctrl-B. I got the select code straight from IDLE. Any other ideas Roger? This might

[issue17581] _ssl fails building on OS X Tiger

Ned Deily added the comment: Thanks for fixing the break. As time goes on, active support of 10.4 Tiger becomes less important but having the buildbot there is an inexpensive way to test backward compatibility, issues that might also arise on other platforms. For 2.7.x and 3.2.x, we still pr

[issue17533] test_xpickle fails with "cannot import name precisionbigmemtest" or "cannot import name _2G"

Ezio Melotti added the comment: Benjamin, the fix you committed still has the _1G vs. _1M typo. -- status: closed -> open type: -> behavior ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue14146] IDLE: source line in editor doesn't highlight when debugging

Todd Rovito added the comment: Here is a backtrace from PDB: -> self.sync_source_line() /Volumes/SecurePython3/cpython/py34/Lib/idlelib/Debugger.py(211)sync_source_line() -> self.flist.gotofileline(filename, lineno) /Volumes/SecurePython3/cpython/py34/Lib/idlelib/FileList.py(46)gotofileline

[issue17578] Update devguide for 3.2 in security-fix-only mode

Ezio Melotti added the comment: LGTM, except for a small inconsistency: the dir of the "default" clone is called "3.x" in the committing page, but "default" in the FAQ about null merge. The one in the FAQ should be renamed "3.x". -- stage: patch review -> commit review type: -> enhan

[issue17551] Windows - accessing drive with nothing mounted forces user interaction

Bob Alexander added the comment: Thanks Terry. I agree that it's a bug. And, in the future I'll be more careful about trimming the "history" from my messages :-) Bob -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue5752] xml.dom.minidom does not escape CR, LF and TAB characters within attribute values

Daniele Varrazzo added the comment: Added separate issue #17582 as ElementTree implementation doesn't depend on whatever causes the bug in xml.dom.minidom. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue17546] Document the circumstances where the locals() dict gets updated

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I also think 'free variable' should be replace by 'nonlocal name'. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Pyt

[issue17582] xml.etree.ElementTree does not preserve whitespaces in attributes

New submission from Daniele Varrazzo: XML defines the following chars as whitespace [1]:: S ::= (#x20 | #x9 | #xD | #xA)+ However the chars are not properly escaped into attributes, so they are converted into spaces as per attribute-value normalization [2] >>> data = '\x09\x0a\x0d\x20

[issue17581] _ssl fails building on OS X Tiger

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: This is fixed. I'll let other people settle the support issue. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue5717] os.defpath includes unix /bin on windows

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Release candidates are separate from the main branch and only get critical patches selected by release manager. Changes usually reuire a new .rc. This seems to have fallen thru the crack between Brian and Tim. I suspect that the next line about (win) 'ce' is

[issue17581] _ssl fails building on OS X Tiger

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Ok, some of the features here are relatively new (they are only 3 years old), so it makes sense to conditionally enable them. The question remains of whether Tiger is an useful target to support, though. -- ___ Pyth

[issue17581] _ssl fails building on OS X Tiger

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset ad9effdc0ac3 by Antoine Pitrou in branch 'default': Further compiling fixes (issue #17581) http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/ad9effdc0ac3 -- ___ Python tracker

[issue17581] _ssl fails building on OS X Tiger

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 02f9335b7efb by Antoine Pitrou in branch 'default': Issue #17581: try to fix building on old OpenSSL versions http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/02f9335b7efb -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue11965] Simplify context manager in os.popen

Mark Lawrence added the comment: So is _wrap_close obsolete or not? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue17546] Document the circumstances where the locals() dict gets updated

Ned Batchelder added the comment: I would say it something like this: "The dictionary returned by locals() is an accurate snapshot of the local namespace at the time it is called. After the call returns, changes to one may or may not be reflected in the other. The dictionary may change unpre

[issue17581] _ssl fails building on OS X Tiger

New submission from Antoine Pitrou: The _ssl module has failed building (on 3.4) on OS X Tiger for a long time: http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/x86%20Tiger%203.x/builds/6075/steps/test/logs/stdio Given the error messages, and given how old OS X Tiger is (according to Google, the system

[issue9305] Don't use east/west of UTC in date/time documentation

Mark Lawrence added the comment: Well, we have a patch and it's been discussed here and on #7229, so can we take this forward? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue12271] panel.h is not found even if it's installed on various flavours of SUSE

Matthias Klose added the comment: hard coding ncurses seems to be wrong, as in most cases, you do want ncursesw. -- nosy: +doko ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue17579] socket module in 2.7.4 raises error instead of gaierror in 2.7.3

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[issue17533] test_xpickle fails with "cannot import name precisionbigmemtest" or "cannot import name _2G"

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset de48977f9289 by Benjamin Peterson in branch '2.7': fall back when an old test_support doesn't have various data and functions (closes #17533) http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/de48977f9289 -- nosy: +python-dev resolution: -> fixed stage: co

[issue17538] Document XML Vulnerabilties

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 91bb6d7ae833 by Christian Heimes in branch '2.7': Issue 17538: Document XML vulnerabilties http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/91bb6d7ae833 -- ___ Python tracker

[issue17453] logging.config.fileConfig error

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[issue17579] socket module in 2.7.4 raises error instead of gaierror in 2.7.3

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: I can't reproduce it. $ ./python lookup.py slashdot.org failed lookup foowhi.com failed lookup Are you sure it's not some Ubuntu/Debian patch? -- ___ Python tracker

[issue17579] socket module in 2.7.4 raises error instead of gaierror in 2.7.3

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: (by the way, I can't reproduce here) -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Uns

[issue17579] socket module in 2.7.4 raises error instead of gaierror in 2.7.3

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Not really intended I think. Can you try to bisect to find out the responsible changeset? -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue17546] Document the circumstances where the locals() dict gets updated

anatoly techtonik added the comment: > them as CPython implementation details and not part of the language definition What is the formal language definition of locals() then? What behavior and functionality of locals() should be supported by all Python implementations? For a potential language

[issue17580] ctypes: ARM hardfloat argument corruption calling functions with many float arguments

New submission from David Schneider: This issue affects C functions with many float/double arguments called through ctypes on ARM using the hardfloat ABI (i.e. the standard distribution for the raspberry pi uses hard-float). Calling a C function using ctypes on ARM hard-float that takes a larg

[issue5717] os.defpath includes unix /bin on windows

Mark Lawrence added the comment: The code is still the same in 3.3.1rc1. Is this an opportunity to get this committed as it's a one line patch? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker

[issue1159051] Handle corrupted gzip files with unexpected EOF

Matthias Klose added the comment: another test case failure with this patch: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/test-rebuild-20130329/+build/4416983 reproducible with feedparser 5.1.3 from pypi, on x86 (but not x86_64). ERROR: test_gzip_struct_error (__main__.TestCompression) ---

[issue6627] threading.local() does not work with C-created threads

Mark Lawrence added the comment: msg116747 suggests wording for a doc patch. Could this be applied and this issue closed? msg117029 talks about a potential feature request. Was this ever discussed? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker

[issue17579] socket module in 2.7.4 raises error instead of gaierror in 2.7.3

New submission from Matthias Klose: forwarded from https://launchpad.net/bugs/+bug/1154599 this seems to be changed behavior in 2.7.4. is it intended? $ cat lookup.py #!/usr/bin/python import sys, socket names = ["slashdot.org", "foowhi.com"] if len(sys.argv) > 1: names = sy

[issue1944] Documentation for PyUnicode_AsString (et al.) missing.

Mark Lawrence added the comment: Is it worth applying the patch given the complete rewrite of unicode for 3.3 via PEP393? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue17573] add ElementTree XML processing benchmark to benchmark suite

Stefan Behnel added the comment: Ok, but an lxml benchmark is independent from this patch then. I updated it to only use cElementTree, with the additional "--etree-module" option and also a "--no-accelerator" option for advanced usage. Another thing I did is to split the actual benchmark code

[issue5038] urrlib2/httplib doesn't reset file position between requests

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[issue17555] Creating new processes after importing multiprocessing.managers consumes more and more memory

Charles-François Natali added the comment: Richard, your patch is indeed better, and fixes the problem. With a test it should be ready to go in. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue17576] PyNumber_Index() is not int-subclass friendly (or operator.index() docos lie)

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[issue15533] subprocess.Popen(cwd) documentation

Ned Deily added the comment: Note, that test_executable_without_cwd now fails when the tests are run from an installed Python. See Issue17046. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___